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How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel

The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I suggest you find a different community to do experiments… Read more

Vmware Puts the Windows-on-M1 Ball in Microsoft’s Court With Progress Update

Home News (Image credit: VMware) VMware updated us on its progress on making Fusion compatible with Apple’s M1 chip this week. The company said it’s committed to “delivering a Tech Preview of VMware Fusion for macOS on Apple silicon this year,” but it’s not clear if that version of the tool will support Windows 10… Read more

How To Make A Magic 8-Ball With Raspberry Pi and Sense HAT

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Raspberry Pi Foundation released its Sense HAT add on back in 2015 and yet this board remains one of the best Raspberry Pi HATs, because it still packs a full scientific platform and an 8×8 RGB LED matrix for a little fun in your Raspberry Pi projects. The… Read more

The Linux Foundation Has a Few Demands for Banned University

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) The researchers who got the University of Minnesota (UMN) banned from contributing to the Linux kernel are going to have to do more than apologize for their actions. ZDNet reported that the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory board sent a list of demands the university will have to meet before it… Read more

Ubuntu Bug Breaks EFI on 21.04 Update With Older Machines

Home News (Image credit: Junior Teixeira from Pexels) The recently released Ubuntu 21.04, is the latest version of the popular Linux distribution and with the latest release we see Wayland arrive as the default display server. But it seems that those wishing to upgrade from a previous release, for example 20.04 / 20.10 are unable… Read more

How To Use CircuitPython on a Raspberry Pi

CircuitPython is a programming language designed to simplify experimenting with low cost boards, typically microcontroller boards made by Adafruit. CircuitPython can also be used on the Raspberry Pi and via two projects we introduce how to use CircuitPython with the Raspberry Pi. The first project is the humble LED, controlling how to blink an LED… Read more

Unofficial PS5 Remote Play Comes to Raspberry Pi

Home News (Image credit: Evoneg Tech) Being able to play your PlayStation 4 and 5 games all around your house via Remote Play streaming is a neat feature, but the small number of officially supported devices means you’re stuck with Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, or another PlayStation. Enterprising coders determined to get an open-source Remote… Read more

Lenovo Flex 3 Chromebook review: good price, bad screen

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Lenovo’s Ideapad Flex 3 Chromebook is one of the tiniest Chromebooks I’ve ever used. It’s also one of the cheapest, retailing for just $349.99. Any laptop that costs that little is going to have some serious drawbacks… Read more

University of Minnesota banned from contributing to Linux kernel

The University of Minnesota has been banned from contributing to the Linux kernel by one of its maintainers after researchers from the school apparently knowingly submitted code with security flaws. Earlier this year, two researchers from the university released a paper detailing how they had submitted known security vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel in order… Read more

Ubuntu 21.04 ‘Hirsute Hippo’ Released For Desktops, Servers and Raspberry Pi

Home News (Image credit: Future) The latest Ubuntu release is upon us. Ubuntu 21.04 “Hirsute Hippo” sees many small updates that will be supported for the next nine months. This may not be an LTS (Long Term Support) release but it does offer a few hints as to the direction in which Ubuntu will be… Read more

University Responds to Ban On Linux Contributions

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) The University of Minnesota Department of Computer Science and Engineering announced that it’s looking into a ban on contributing to the Linux kernel that was issued after its research attracted the ire of the stable release channel’s steward. That ban was issued on Wednesday by Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel… Read more

Chromebook users will soon be able to auto-caption any media playing in their browser

Google has announced some new features coming to Chromebooks, including the company’s Live Captions feature that will be added to Chrome on “most” Chrome OS devices in the coming weeks. Once Live Captions are available, users can flip them on in the accessibility settings to get captions for any media with audio right inside their… Read more

Microsoft enables Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 for developers

Microsoft is starting to allow Windows 10 testers to access Linux GUI apps. The first preview of support for GUI applications is available today for Windows Insiders, allowing developers to run GUI editors, tools, and applications to build and test Linux apps. It’s a significant extension for Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), after the… Read more

Zoom update delivers more emoji reactions and new annotation features

This week’s Zoom update includes a couple of quality of life improvements for anyone using its annotation or emoji reaction features, the company has announced. Meeting participants can now use any emoji that was previously available in Zoom chat to react during a meeting, up from the six meager options that were available previously. These… Read more

Linux Foundation Bans University After It Intentionally Submitted Buggy Patches

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) The University of Minnesota isn’t making any friends in the Linux community. Phoronix reported that Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Fellow at the Linux Foundation responsible for stable releases of the Linux kernel, has banned the University from contributing to that kernel after two students purposely added faulty code to it. The… Read more